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Francis Bennett
Doctor Berlin
Published April 2001 by Weidenfeld at £16.99
ISBN: 0575065540
Francis Bennett's brilliant fictional sequence of
novels tracing the history of the Cold War started
with Making Enemies, set in the deadly days of
the race for the hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s,
and continued with Secret Kingdom, which
anatomised the run-up to the Hungarian
Revolution, when the Hungarian people cried out
for help from the West and were ignored for the
basest of Realpolitikal reasons.
Now, in Doctor Berlin, we are in 1961 at yet
another time of crisis as the great powers
squabble over that symbol of a divided
Europe, Berlin.
Nobody has written sopenetratingly or so fascinatingly of the great tectonic political shifts of the past fifty years since John le Carre.